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Lot’s Weakness.

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Genesis Nineteen….  Verses 26-38….

   Verse 26 seems to show most of Lot’s weakness…his wife. She was too strong for him, she didn’t really believe the messengers…..

     She didn’t want to leave her home, and she didn’t want to go to the mountains either….everything she said, Lot went along with. Her heart was still in Sodom. As they were taken forcibly by the hands of the two messengers, she hung back watching it all happen. As she dithered around, she was turned into a salty statue, destroyed by the same stuff that was destroying her things back home.

     How many people are not prepared to leave their old ways to take the deliverance offered by God! They are ultimately destroyed by the very thing they hang onto…their sin.

      We wonder what Abraham’s thoughts were the next morning as he surveyed the smoking plain! He probably never saw Lot again. But that was not the end of Lot’s weakness. His two single daughters were still tainted with Sodom’s wickedness and evil, and thought nothing of the incest between them and their father….in fact, they planned it.

     The results of it plagued God’s people for ever in the Moabites and Ammonites (symbols of the flesh) that overran their borders for years. In the same way believers today are plagued by the fleshly desires as Paul describes in Romans 7:14-25….I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into the captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me  from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ  our Lord.

Lot’s life was saved, his things were gone,                                   Nothing left that he’d worked on.      No-one listened to what he said,   For he was weak and easily led.

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Lot’s Slippery Slope.

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Genesis Nineteen….      Verse 1….

  Lot had started out with his tent pitched towards Sodom (chapter 13:12) and now he was sitting IN the gate of Sodom as one of the chief men. How often we start on a course that we think we can handle, only to find that it overcomes us in the end!

   We don’t know whether Lot’s wife was from Sodom or not, but the family was living in Sodom and part of it by this time with at least two married daughters living there. Lot didn’t agree with the wickedness that went on in the city….his righteous soul was vexed every day by what he saw around him (2 Peter 2:6-9)… but he was too weak and too committed to move out.

   No wonder the Psalmist could say that the man who could keep from socialising with the ungodly, standing with sinners in business or sitting in politics or councils was blessed indeed. (Psalm 1:1-6). It takes a strong committed Christian to be able to be in a position like this and to keep from being sucked into the system.

  So now we see Lot sitting in the gate with the other officials, meeting these messengers from God who had come to warn him to flee from the coming destruction.

Lot started off with good intentions, Now found himself in evil past mention, Through Abraham’s prayers, He was saved from these cares, And taken away from dissension.

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Pleading With God.

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Genesis Eighteen….Verses 16-33….


The meal was finished and the travellers prepared to move on. Abraham went with them for a short distance to bid them good speed, still not knowing that they weren’t just ordinary visitors…..


One of the Visitors lingered with Abraham while the other two went on, and now Abraham recognised that they were Heavenly Visitors, and that he was indeed speaking with God. God revealed now to Abraham what He was shortly going to do in this area…God said He was going to tell Abraham (His friend…James 2:23) what was about to happen, the destruction of the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.


Abraham’s thoughts immediately sprang to his nephew Lot who lived there, and he spoke up for him, making one of the great statements that we can hang onto today, “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”. Indeed, we know that all God’s ways are right, even when we don’t understand them!


Abraham began to plead for Lot and his family….would God destroy Sodom if there were fifty righteous people there? “No”, God replied. “What about forty five then?” and Abraham went on down in numbers until he reached ten. Each time the answer was the same. “No”, God said, “I will not destroy the city if there are ten righteous there!”


What grace and mercy we see! Even though the city was filled with the wickedness of homosexuality which God utterly abhors, yet the presence of ten righteous people would save it. We underestimate the effect that godly people have in a community…..they are the salt that preserves, the light that shines in a dark place (Matthew 5:13-14). James tells us that the effectual and fervent prayer of a righteous person avails for much (James 5:16b) and Abraham certainly proved that in this case.

God tells of doom that sin will bring, And warns so clear of sin’s last sting,
As Abram pled for Lot his kin, So Satan strove his life to win.
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God’s Time had Come.

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Genesis 18: Verses 1-15….

   What a lovely picture of hospitality we have here! The LORD appeared to Abraham in the form of three travellers passing by, the Trinity in human form…..      We wonder how Abraham heard God’s messages the other times! Notice how readily Abraham met these messengers….he RAN to meet them and bowed down to the ground. How quickly would we bring God into our house? Would we want to put certain things out of sight first?

Abraham took them inside and then hurried to Sarah’s tent…”Quick, do some baking for lunch”, he said. Then he RAN to the herd and got a fat calf and HASTED to kill and dress it. Meantime, the visitors were sitting in the shade of the tree waiting. How patient God is with us!

   Sarah was curious about these visitors and she sat in the door of her tent nearby to hear what they had to say. She could hardly believe her ears! “Sarah will have a son”, they were saying. Sarah laughed to herself when she heard this (perhaps rather bitterly)….she was now 90! Too late now.

     Horrified, she heard one of the men say, “Why did Sarah laugh? Is anything too hard for God?” She tried to cover up. “No, I didn’t laugh”, she said. “You did!” He said.

     We can never hide anything from God. But in spite of that, Sarah gathered herself up to believe that this would indeed happen. (Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. Hebrews 11:11)

God promised Abraham once more, While Sarah listened at the door, “Sarah’s son will come next year, I’ll do it surely, never fear!”

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Consequences.

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Genesis Sixteen….Verses 5-16….

   Sarai could now see some of the results of her impatience and unbelief, but it was too late. Hagar was refusing to obey her mistress and thought she should have privileges, being the mother of Abram’s son….

   Sarai treated her harshly and Hagar ran off. Hagar, too, had lessons to learn. God’s angel appeared to her and told her to go back to her mistress…God would bless this unborn son of hers and would make him the father of many nations because he was Abram’s son. His name was to be Ishmael.

   BUT he was not God’s chosen child, he was not the promised son but the son of the flesh as it were, and he did not come under God’s covenant. This shows us that although all mankind are God’s sons by creation, yet are they not all God’s sons in the sense of inheriting salvation. All humans are born in bondage to Satan, born under sin, and must be re-born in Christ to be freed of that bondage (John 3:16). This is the promise we have of God today (Galatians 4 :22-26, 28-31)

    Hagar listened to the angel and returned to Sarai and the son was born. Time passed by (another thirteen years) and although Abram felt that this was the son that God had promised, there were certain traits in this boy that he wondered about. He had a certain wildness about him, and a rebellious spirit.  (verse 12)

                        Consequences of impatience can last, And things haunt us from the past,

God’s time is right, perfect for all, But we must wait for His time and call.

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Wait, and Still Wait….

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Genesis Eight…                       

Verses 1-22….

   Noah and all the life with him were in the ark for just over twelve months (verse 14). For just over five months the waters kept rising, then the rain stopped and the tide started to drop. Seven months after Noah went into it, he felt the ark bump into something hard and it stuck fast.

   Noah kept looking out and three months later he could see the tops of the mountains again. What a day that would have been! But it was not God’s time to leave the ark yet. Noah had learned through the years to WAIT until God told him to move.    But that didn’t stop him testing what was going on and he sent a raven out which didn’t come back. So he sent a dove and it returned, and a week later he sent it out again. This time it came back with a green leaf in its beak. But it still wasn’t God’s time….the plants and grass had to grow again to give the animals enough food to survive.

    At last the day came…..what a day of rejoicing that was! Noah was full of thankfulness and praise to God as he took some of the “clean” animals and birds to make a sacrifice to Him (verses 20-21a) which God accepted. This gave God much pleasure and He put the rainbow in the sky as a sign that He would never again destroy the earth in such a way.

Noah learned as he walked life’s way, To obey his God from day to day, We too must wait, for God WILL lead, As we look to Him and His Word read.

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The First Half…

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Genesis One….(v.1-13)       

Verses 1-13….

   There is a lot more to how the world began than what the modern day scientists think. It started off with no shape of any sort and was dark and empty. We are told that the world has foundations and pillars in the constructions of this globe that we live on (Job 9:6-10)…

   Science tells us (and we see it in the eruption of volcanoes) that the centre of the earth is a boiling mass. Just as Matthew tells us that God has already prepared a kingdom for His people, there is already a place prepared for the devil and his angels. This place is popularly supposed to be the centre of the earth, but seeing the outside of the globe is going to be done away with, it could be somewhere more permanent!  (Matthew 25:34, 41; 2 Peter 3:7-13)

We wonder what the source of the original light was, the first thing that God created. The earth was already spinning as there was a clear definition of night and day. The waters above (mists and clouds) were separated from the waters beneath (seas and oceans) by the atmosphere, air and clouds on the second day (Job 38:4-12). The third day brought the dry land, oceans, seas and rivers, as well as the vegetation, and the earth was now ready to bear fruit.

God brought the earth from dark to light, God spoke and it burst into sight, The air and all the world around, Were put in place, with all  their  bounds.

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Who Actually Created the World?

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Genesis One….(v.1-2)            

Verses 1-2….

   Verse one goes on to say, “God created the heaven and the earth”. Who actually did the creating? Many people think that it was God the Father that did the creating, but there are many verses that show the whole Trinity was involved in the creating business. Let’s look at them….

   Both the writer to the Hebrews and John say that the Son was involved in the creation and in fact, is still seeing to the upholding of the original creation….keeping it going if you like (John 1:3; Hebrews 1:2-3). We also see that the Father and the Son do nothing without including the Holy Spirit (1 John 5:6-8). It is the Holy Spirit who reveals the Son and God’s truths to mere mortal mankind. All this was ordained and put in order before the world began.

   No wonder Paul goes on to write that man hasn’t even begun to see and hear the wonderful things that God has in store for His people…..in fact, it is beyond our comprehension while we are earth-bound. (1 Corinthians 2:7-11; Ephesians 3:9-11).

Just as a caterpillar has no comprehension of the freedom and beauty of the fluttering butterfly it will become, so man cannot take in or even imagine what lies ahead!! And this is all part of God’s eternal plan….we don’t know yet what we will become, but we DO know that when we see our Lord Jesus we will become like Him! (1 John 3:2)

God created man to be with Him, To live on earth with Him within;

To be with Him in heav’n above, To know his peace and light and love.

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